[Openembedded-architecture] meta-gplv2 support from YP testing in master

[Alexander Kanavin]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 22:08, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another tricky point is libraries such as gmp and nettle, which are
> now either LGPLv3 (and so problematic for signed firmware images, etc)
> or GPLv2 (and so problematic if somehow linked with proprietary code).
>
> meta-gplv2 solves that problem too by providing the last versions of
> gmp and nettle which could be distributed under LGPv2 (and the last
> version of gnutls which supports those older version of gmp and
> nettle).
>

'Solves that problem' is perhaps an unfortunate word choice; I wouldn't
want to revert to outdated versions of anything, but *especially*
cryptographic libraries and toolkits.

Alex
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